Promoting Polecat Perkins

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Chuck Warner is a lovable liar, a hard-drinking cowboy whose latest scheme is so outrageous even his friends can barely follow it. When he decides that a local eccentric called Polecat Perkins can be "promoted" into the missing brother of a millionaire and used to claim a reward, the result is a frontier caper powered by bluff, greed, and pure comic nerve. Polecat, stubborn, plainspoken, and deeply suspicious of comfort or respectability, agrees to play along only because the money sounds useful. What follows is a riotous journey from dugout to train car to city hotel, where rough cowpunchers collide with modern travel, police raids, suspicious strangers, and the rules of civilized life. Gunfire, mistaken identities, jail, automobiles, and graveyard chaos keep turning every plan into slapstick disaster. Yet beneath the drunken banter and absurd mishaps, the story celebrates cowboy independence and the freedom of the West. In the end, Polecat's practical obstinacy and one perfectly timed detail bring the whole millionaire mystery to a delightfully anticlimactic close.